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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2018
Rapley Classic Cars tent at the Lime Rock Historic's. 1957 Mercedes Gullwing. 1951 Dagrada 750S (we think). 1953 Frua bodied Nardi Danese. Left to Right: A great venue to enjoy the company of friends and look at some great cars. The experts are still researching the...
The Best of 2017
2017 was a great year and we bid it farewell with fondness. The market is robust especially for the unique and interesting. Below are some of our favorites from the past year. 1939 BMW 328. LeMans and Mille Miglia racer. Chassis 85335 What happened to...
Discovered – 1939 BMW LeMans racer.
August 28th, 2017. Connecticut. A representative from BMW Classic (Klaus Kutscher) had flown in from Munich and was carefully inspecting a 1939 BMW 328 roadster. An owner and a small cluster of men paced the floor like expectant fathers at a maternity ward. Each, on...
I’d just purchased a Maserati 3500GT. Now all I had to do was find it!
Maserati 3500GT. AM101.1086 Looking thru an old notebook I came across a few scribbled notes on a Maserati 3500GT that I had found 20+ years earlier, sitting under a tree, in Kansas City. It was rusty, ugly and irresistible. The owner WOULD NOT sell it to me....
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1973 FIAT 130 Coupe
The Fiat 130 Coupe was produced from 1971 to 1977. It is an iconic Paolo Martin design out of Pininfarina. Worldwide only 4491 were made, and of those only 500 had manual transmissions (like this one). None came to the US from the original production run. These cars...
2019 Aston Vanquish Zagato Shooting Brake
Some of Zagato’s finest work is up for sale, and we’d argue that the 2019 Vanquish Zagato shooting brake is one of the coolest modern cars you could buy today. It’s futuristic, beautiful, functional, and absolutely cool. This is one of just 99 Zagato shooting brakes...
Burnt to a crisp: 1985 Porsche 911
Seriously, this thing is toasty. If you've ever wanted to see what an 80's 911 looks like after being in an inferno, this is it. There's essentially nothing left outside of the seat frames and the body. These 80's 911's are wonderful cars, and as such have been rising...
1952 Jaguar XK120 Roadster Project
The Jaguar XK120 was a ground breaking design when it arrived in 1948. Modern, stylish and fast. The first 240 cars were aluminum bodied with later cars bodied in steel. Powered by a straight six, 3.4 litre engine with twin cam shafts producing 160 horsepower. The...
Crash Test: Ferrari 488 Spider Copart
The Ferrari 488 is the updated version of the 458, and is Ferrari's current most track oriented model. They've been available since 2015, and won "The Supercar of the Year 2015" by car magazine Top Gear, as well as Motor Trend's 2017 "Best Driver's Car." High praise,...
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